6:24 PM, January 17, 2013

This April 11, 2012, photo released by the Michigan Department of Corrections shows Eric L. Ramsey, 30, of Mount Pleasant, who was paroled in July 2012 after being convicted of assaulting a police officer and destruction of property. / AP/MDOC

LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan prisons spokesman says a parole board had no clear reason to reject a freedom request from a convict who later raped a college student and tried to burn down the house where she fled.

Authorities say a sheriff's deputy shot 30-year-old Eric Ramsey of Mount Pleasant on Thursday morning after the abduction and sexual assault of a Central Michigan University student.

Prison records say Ramsey was paroled last summer after serving the minimum five years for assault with intent to do great bodily harm.

The maximum sentence is 15 years, and inmates are eligible for parole review after their minimum sentences.